DU on the boil: Protest intensifies in support for Gurmehar Kaur

The march, led by DU and JNU’s teachers and students and joined by All India Students Association members will start from Khalsa College in the North Campus to the Arts Faculty.

The National Students' Union of India is staging a hunger strike outside Delhi University Arts faculty. Earlier, around 1,000 policemen were deployed at the campus.

A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad took out a Tiranga march in Delhi University, several protests marches and counter-marches are expected at the DU and Jawahar Lal Nehru University campuses on Tuesday.

Here are the live updates:

03:24 pm: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal reaches L-G office to complain against ABVP, seeks action against rape threats to Gurmehar Kaur

02:28 pm: Union Min Ravi Shankar Prasad said, ''Gurmehar Kaur is martyr's daughter,respect that. People politicising matter, what do they have to say about terrorists?

01:42 pm: Congress leader Kapil Sibal tweets in favour of Gurmehar Kaur

01:28 pm: JNU & DU students hold protest march against ABVP in North Campus area

01:23 pm: Action should be taken against all those who are trolling Martyr's daughter Gurmehar Kaur says Kiren Rijiju

01:02 pm: Delhi Police has filed an FIR on the rape threat to Gurmeher Kaur. This came after DCW forwarded her complaint to Police commissioner under IPC 354A ,506, and 66 IT act.

12:59 pm: Olympian Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt tweets against DU student Gurmehar Kaur, with the following picture

12: 54 pm: The march, led by DU and JNU's teachers and students and joined by All India Students Association members begins from Khalsa College in the North Campus to the Arts Faculty. Nearly 800 students expected in the protest.

Meanehile, security has been tightened outside Delhi University's Arts Faculty.

Congress-backed National Students Union of India is also organising a symbolic one-day hunger strike at the arts faculty, followed by a 'mashaal' rally.

Earlier in the day, Gurmehar Kaur, the Delhi University student at the centre of controversy surrounding the premier educational institution, decided to distance herself from the patriot war playing out at the Ramjas College.

Kaur, who on Monday filed a complaint and was given protection from the DCW, withdrew from the campaign on Tuesday and said, "I'm withdrawing from the campaign. Congratulations everyone. I request to be left alone. I said what I had to say. I have been through a lot and this is all my 20-year-self could take."